Hello Joe Stringer, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch 6acc9b432e67: "bpf: Add helper to retrieve socket in BPF" from Oct 2, 2018, leads to the following Smatch complaint: net/core/filter.c:4893 bpf_sk_lookup() error: we previously assumed 'skb->dev' could be null (see line 4885) net/core/filter.c 4884 4885 if (skb->dev) ^^^^^^^^ The patch adds a check 4886 caller_net = dev_net(skb->dev); 4887 else 4888 caller_net = sock_net(skb->sk); 4889 if (netns_id) { 4890 net = get_net_ns_by_id(caller_net, netns_id); 4891 if (unlikely(!net)) 4892 goto out; 4893 sk = sk_lookup(net, tuple, skb, family, proto); ^^^ 4894 put_net(net); 4895 } else { 4896 net = caller_net; 4897 sk = sk_lookup(net, tuple, skb, family, proto); ^^^ We dereference skb->dev inside the sk_lookup() function. 4898 } 4899 4900 if (sk) 4901 sk = sk_to_full_sk(sk); 4902 out: 4903 return (unsigned long) sk; 4904 } regards, dan carpenter